Douluo Continent: Simulating Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, Exclusively Trapping Tang San

The group followed the traces of battle for another half hour or so before finally finding Zi JI. Two or three meters in front of her lay a huge black tiger with a pair of black wings, but its barbed tail had been torn off and tossed aside.

The huge black tiger was on its last breath, but it clearly had not truly begun fighting for its life. Gong Yu thought Zi JI really had seriously wounded it, but it was also partly putting on an act.

If it truly fought for its life, it would at least use its time skill for a battle of reversed ages.

Then again, it might not dare use that skill on Zi JI. After all, she was far older than it was. Even if they fought a battle of reversed ages, it might turn into the little wildcat it had been at birth before it could make Zi JI smaller.

The main reason Gong Yu judged that the huge black tiger was putting on an act, however, was that its black pearl had yet to leave its body. The tiger could not die so easily; even if it did die, it would take the pearl with it and break through the spatial barrier to escape.

That black pearl was equivalent to its inner core. It contained six attributes-evil, darkness, lightning, wind, time, and space-and was also what Gong Yu wanted.

Na'er walked over and said, "Big tiger, how about sacrificing yourself to my brother?"

Gong Yu's jaw nearly hit the floor. Another sacrifice? Were they all lining up to sacrifice themselves today?

Even Gong Yu himself had never dared imagine absorbing the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Ring. Yet Na'er had marched right up and asked, "How about sacrificing yourself?" This sovereign of Soul Beasts was a little too awesome.

Unfortunately, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger merely raised its eyelids and glanced at Gong Yu, then did nothing more. It simply looked down on him.

"I feel like I've been ignored, and I'm really not happy about it," Gong Yu said mildly, only to suddenly feel a tremor inside him.

He looked within and discovered that his Second Martial Soul, the Golden Dragon Break Evil Staff, was trembling. Being ignored by a mere evil Soul Beast had roused the Break Evil Dragon's will. The Break Evil Dragon had the power to break demons and evil, so being ignored by an evil Soul Beast was tantamount to a provocation.

"I don't need it to sacrifice itself. I'm going to absorb its Soul Ring." Gong Yu's sudden declaration startled everyone.

"Brother Yu, have you gone mad? This huge black tiger is at least sixty thousand years old." Even Na'er, the sovereign of Soul Beasts, had some trouble understanding how Gong Yu could have such an idea.

"I know," Gong Yu said firmly. "But the Break Evil Dragon's will inside me won't allow an evil creature like this to provoke me. Since it's evil, I'll break it."

Chapter 51: The battle of reversed ages

"Young master, calm down! You mustn't act rashly!" Gong Lan rushed in front of Gong Yu and blocked his path, refusing to let him do anything reckless.

The other girls also stepped forward to stop him. A Soul Beast on the sixty-thousand-year level was terrifying. Unless it sacrificed itself, how could they dare let Gong Yu absorb a Soul Ring of that level?

"Don't panic, sisters. Brother Yu never does anything without being sure of success." After Gong Yu mentioned the Break Evil Dragon, Na'er stopped worrying instead.

Na'er pulled Gong Yu aside and asked again, "Brother Yu, are you sure you want to absorb its Soul Ring?"

"I'm sure," Gong Yu said firmly. "The Break Evil Dragon's unyielding will took the huge black tiger's disregard as a provocation. I have a feeling that if I don't absorb its Soul Ring, the unyielding will inside me will dissipate, and the Golden Dragon Break Evil Staff will degenerate into an ordinary staff Martial Soul."

Na'er had her suspicions, but she was still a little puzzled. "How could that happen?"

Gong Yu explained, "Because the huge black tiger carries the Evil God's will. Its disregard is the same as a provocation from the Evil God. The Break Evil Dragon was formed from the righteous Qi of heaven and earth, and its will represents that righteous Qi. It simply cannot tolerate a provocation from an evil creature."

Na'er breathed a sigh of relief. Gong Yu's explanation was much the same as what she had suspected, but she still said, "All right, Brother Yu, I believe you. But to borrow something you once said, if anything goes wrong while you're absorbing the Soul Ring, I'll interrupt you on the spot."

Although Na'er was a dragon, the Break Evil Dragon did not belong to the Dragon Clan, and the Dragon Clan did not know much about it either. So she could only listen to Gong Yu's explanation.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine." Gong Yu looked perfectly composed. Anyone who didn't know better would have thought he truly wasn't worried, but inside he was panicking like crazy. That damned Break Evil Dragon was too reckless, leaving him somewhat regretting his choice of Second Martial Soul.

Gong Yu had no other choice at the moment, so he collected his thoughts and contacted the Simulation System. System, is there any way you can help me resolve this?

He had thought the system might not want to answer him, since he had not run a Simulation in five years. But the next instant, a system prompt appeared.

[Yes, but there is a price.]

Gong Yu's face lit up at the response, and he immediately said in his heart, A price? How many Simulation attempts are you going to deduct from me this time?

[This system needs to upgrade. If the host reduces his expenditure by another twelve Simulation attempts, this system can collect enough origin power for the upgrade.]

So you're going to overdraw another twelve of my Simulation attempts! Gong Yu thought. Fine, it's only twelve. You can have them. I want to see what new functions you get after upgrading.

[Transaction complete. The host may absorb the Soul Ring at any time.]

Seeing the prompt, Gong Yu smiled faintly. He trusted neither the Golden Dragon King Bloodline nor the Break Evil Dragon's will. Only the system's guarantee could make him truly feel safe and certain nothing would go wrong.

Returning to the group, Gong Yu promised earnestly, "Don't worry, I'll be fine. You have to trust me. I've never let you down, have I?"

"But..." Gong Lan wanted to say more, but Gong Yu interrupted her.

"You're the one who understands me best," he said. "You should trust me all the more."

"I... all right, I won't stop you." Gong Lan sighed, knowing she could not stop him. Then she added, "But if something really happens to you, I promise I'll follow you in death."

Hearing Gong Lan's words, the other girls said firmly, "We will too."

Only Na'er said nothing, so several of the girls looked at her.

Na'er immediately felt awkward. A little guiltily, she said, "Do I have to do the same... too?"

"Of course! You're the young mistress!" Gong Xue cried.

Na'er thought to herself, Even if I am the young mistress, there's no need to die for love, is there?

But then she remembered that with the Break Evil Dragon's unyielding will protecting Gong Yu, nothing could possibly happen to him. So she did not mind playing along with them. "All right, then I'll do the same."

The girls then made a path for Gong Yu.

Zi JI, meanwhile, had remained beside the huge black tiger. To keep it from escaping through some trick, she gave it a swipe with her dragon claws from time to time.

The huge black tiger was already covered in wounds, but it continued to endure, neither using its time skill nor withdrawing its soul into the black pearl and breaking through the spatial barrier to escape.

When Zi JI saw Gong Yu approaching after finishing his conversation with Na'er, she stepped aside.

Gong Yu nodded to Zi JI and came to the huge black tiger's side. His expression tightened, and three Blood Essence Soul Rings slowly materialized beneath his feet. Golden scales appeared on his arms and hands, and even on his chest.

A dragon's roar rang out from within him. His right hand transformed into a Golden Dragon Claw, and he immediately prepared to strike the huge black tiger on the head.

As though sensing mortal danger, two rays of light flashed from the huge black tiger's eyes. The two curtains of light met at a point in the air and produced a black dot.

The black dot appeared between it and Gong Yu. A fierce black light suddenly erupted, and in an instant it became a huge black hole three meters across.

An immense suction suddenly surged from the three-meter-wide black hole, pulling Gong Yu straight inside. The Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's own body vanished into it as well, beyond its control.

Everything around Gong Yu sank into darkness. He felt weightless, with no force acting on his body.

Stranger still, his Soul Power fluctuations seemed to be growing weaker, and his body also seemed to be undergoing some peculiar change.

He felt for some of the things he carried and found that his various Soul Tools were still there, which reassured him considerably.

His spiritual power was also completely suppressed in this dark world. He immediately turned on a Soul Tool lamp, illuminating his surroundings as brightly as day.

Only once he had lit up the area did he discover that his body had shrunk to the size it had been when he was six. He was now in a strange circular space that resembled an enormous arena.

Twenty or thirty meters away stood a big black cat. Needless to say, he knew it was the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, shrunken down.

Gong Yu smiled faintly. Now that he had returned to his six-year-old form, he had only a tiny fluctuation of Soul Power. If they actually fought, he probably could not beat the big cat, and that tiny bit of Soul Power was not enough to activate a lethal Soul Tool.

He immediately felt for one of the Soul Tools on his body. It was a level-three sealed Milk Bottle, the only one he had made not long ago. It stored enough Soul Power to replenish someone to the Soul Elder level.

After replenishing his Soul Power from the Milk Bottle, Gong Yu finally had enough to use a lethal Soul Tool.

He promptly used a level-three Soul Tool pistol and killed the big cat with a single shot. It was direct and straightforward, with nothing exciting about the process.

After the big cat died, the surrounding alternate space disappeared. Gong Yu reappeared before the others and returned to his original form.

Chapter 52: The black pearl

"Catch that pearl! Don't let it get away!" As soon as Gong Yu emerged from the alternate space, he spotted a strange pearl floating above the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's enormous corpse a short distance in front of him.

The pearl was pitch-black all over, but it radiated both cyan and blue light.

Before Gong Yu could react, however, the black hole that had released him suddenly exerted a suction. The strange pearl shot toward it, about to fly inside.

Fortunately, Zi JI had noticed it as soon as Gong Yu shouted. Seeing the black pearl about to escape, she flashed into its path and reached out to seize it, holding it tightly in her palm.

The black pearl seemed unwilling to give up. It slammed against her palm again and again, trying to break free.

Zi JI snorted coldly and tightened her grip. Only after quite a while did the black pearl finally give up resisting.

Above the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's corpse on the ground, a deep black Soul Ring had now formed.

Zi JI walked over and handed Gong Yu the black pearl, which had stopped resisting.

Gong Yu nodded, accepted the pearl, and put it into the system's storage space. Once it was in there, he believed that no matter how much it wanted to resist, it would have no chance of escaping.

He then sat down cross-legged and regulated his breathing for half an hour, bringing himself fully into peak condition.

Looking up at the black Soul Ring still floating in the air, Gong Yu first summoned his golden Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul. He had renamed this Martial Soul Golden Primordial Grass: "golden" from Golden Dragon King, "primordial" from the primordial Qi of heaven and earth, and "grass" from Blue Silver Grass.

As the Golden Primordial Grass appeared, Gong Yu brought two fingers together and drew the black Soul Ring floating in the air toward it. The ring turned into a streak of light and flew at the Golden Primordial Grass. With a flash, it settled directly around the grass.

At the same time, a cold current that was not particularly large but was extremely sharp pierced into Gong Yu's body in an instant, madly battering the layers of defense he had laid down with his Soul Power.

The cold current was full of extreme evil and intense unwillingness. The instant it rushed into Gong Yu's body, the shock made him spray out a mist of blood.

"Young master..."

"Big brother..."

The girls became anxious when they saw Gong Yu spray out blood and wanted to rush forward, but he raised a hand to stop them.

Gong Yu said nothing. Only after the girls had stopped did he turn his head and concentrate, circulating the Quanzhen Great Dao Song within his body.

As he circulated the Quanzhen Great Dao Song, a pure presence unique to the Daoist school arose within him. It immediately began a battle for dominance against the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's cold, evil presence.

As one waxed and the other waned, neither yielding, they gradually stirred the energy of the surrounding heaven and earth, forming a vortex in the shape of black and white yin-yang fish above Gong Yu's head.

A dragon's roar suddenly erupted from within Gong Yu. Na'er's heart trembled when she heard it, for she knew full well that although it sounded like a dragon's roar, it was not the roar of the Dragon Clan, but that of the Break Evil Dragon.

Subdued by the roar, the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's cold, evil presence immediately wilted. The pure Daoist presence within Gong Yu seized the opportunity and surged forward, swiftly wiping out the evil presence.

As the evil presence was destroyed, a vast amount of pure Soul Power began pouring into Gong Yu's body. It circulated through him with the Quanzhen Great Dao Song, finally becoming streams of Soul Power belonging solely to him and sinking into his dantian.

But the Soul Power from the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which was over sixty thousand years old, was simply too vast. Although Gong Yu was circulating his technique with all his might to absorb it, he still could not match the force of the immense Soul Power. In an instant, it began to erupt and surge through his body.

Gong Yu felt his whole body begin to swell, as though it might burst at any moment. Still, he persisted in circulating his technique, trying to absorb as much as he could, bit by bit.

With every bit he absorbed, a little more of the vast Soul Power was consumed, and every bit consumed eased the burden on his body a little.

From the outside, Gong Yu's body had swollen so enormously that he looked like a fat man.

Seeing this, the girls clenched their fists. They wanted to go to him, but feared that their actions might affect him and cause some unnecessary accident. So they stood where they were, fretting helplessly, unable to decide whether to approach or stay back.

Gong Yu was also struggling inwardly. He called to the system, asking why it had not acted yet. Then a system prompt appeared.

[This system only guarantees that the host will not die and will seal the Soul Ring's strength, leaving it at around the twenty-thousand-year level. The longer the host endures, the greater the benefits.]

Good. Guaranteeing I won't die is enough, Gong Yu thought, delighted. As long as he was guaranteed not to die, he had nothing to worry about.

As for the powerful Soul Power within him, he would endure for all he was worth and absorb it slowly. Eventually, he would use it all up.

While Gong Yu was absorbing the Soul Ring, the people from Shitrek encountered a Soul Beast elsewhere: a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent suited to Oscar.

The Shrek Seven Monsters worked together, with Zhao Wuji's cooperation, and finally brought down the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent.

If Gong Yu had been there, however, he would have noticed that all seven monsters were present. Although Dai Mubai still looked weak, he could already move freely.

The main reason Dai Mubai could move freely so soon was that after Tang San went to Shitrek, he had used his knowledge of medicine to help nurse Dai Mubai back to health.

Combined with the effects of Oscar's Recovery Sausages, Dai Mubai had been able to get out of bed and move freely in just two days. He still looked a little weak, but it did not affect his use of his Martial Soul or Soul Power.

There was also the little grass-chicken fatty. Although Gong Xue had beaten him badly, he was a fire-attribute Soul Master himself, so even though the force of the explosion had struck him, it had not caused much actual damage.

With the help of Oscar's Recovery Sausages, the grass-chicken fatty also recovered quickly. However, his Mohawk had been burned off, so the little fatty was now just a round little baldhead.

As Oscar was about to finish off the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, which had only one breath left, old Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang appeared with her granddaughter.

Thus, the people from Shitrek became entangled in another dispute with Snake Granny and her granddaughter.

In the end, the two sides held a contest to decide who would claim the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent. Shitrek sent Tang San to fight in Oscar's place, while Snake Granny's granddaughter, Meng Yiran, fought for the other side.

The outcome hardly needed stating: Tang San was bound to win.

In the end, Oscar obtained the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent as his Third Soul Ring.

Elsewhere, Gong Yu's absorption of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Ring had also entered a stable phase. His body, swollen like that of an enormous fat man, was beginning to shrink back little by little.

Chapter 53: The Titan Giant Ape

Time passed bit by bit, and in the blink of an eye, it was the next morning.

The absorption had lasted the entire night. When Gong Yu let out a long breath and awoke from cultivation, he felt refreshed in body and spirit.

He sensed his Soul Power and found that his Soul Power Level had risen from level 40 to level 43.

"The Soul Ring's cultivation was suppressed to the twenty-thousand-year level, yet it still raised my Soul Power by three levels. That shows just how vast the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's Soul Power must have been." A faint smile appeared on Gong Yu's lips as he slowly opened his eyes and stood up.

When the girls saw Gong Yu stand, they all crowded around him.